POVERTY IS NOT A HINDRANCE BUT A STEPPING STONE

“Poverty is not a Hindrance but a Stepping Stone”

Poverty was the greatest motivating fact in our lives. This is according to Jimmy Dean. This qoutation may be true to most individuals like me. Poverty may connote a negative idea but this negative thought can be turn into something positive if people would choose to do so.

Let us try to imagine poverty. Have you seen children begging for money or food? Have you seen children who are able not able to go to school because they need to earn for a living? Have you seen people living in squatter areas? They are the perfect picture of poverty. Poverty is the lack of what is essential to life like food, shelter, clothing, and of course education.

There are lots of reasons why there is poverty. Some of these are laziness, lack of education, and financial problem that is why many families are poor. Sadly some poor people are contented with this kind of situation. For them, being poor is in their blood. With that, most of them are poor and they are not given chances to change their situation in life. Also, others are contented of what they have, even they are poor.

If you are going to ask me, I believe that there is no excuses on being poor. There are unlimited ways to have a well-off life. As long as your persevere, success will always be on your way. Even without a college degree, a person can still have a way to be successful. They just have to be courageous, persevering and industrious. But for us who are given chance to study, strive to finish our studies and earn a college degree. This is our guide to achieve the success that we want to avoid being poor. able to continue studying, achieve to finish our schooling with a college degree.

Life is not easy. There are lots of hindrances in reaching our goals. But let us learn to act and fight these hindrances. Just take one step at a time and reach our stepping stone to success. And the most important thing is believe in yourself that how hard your situation is, we can still succeed in the good way. Truly, that there is no reason to stay poor. Together, let us not let poverty be a hindrance to stepping stone.

                                                                                               Joelly Anne E. Guieb

                                                                                                ABM 1A